Author: Davydd J. GreenwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decentralization in government
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Community-level Research, Local-regional-governmental Interactions, and Development Planning
Author: Davydd J. GreenwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decentralization in government
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Community-level Research, Local-regional-governmental Interactions, and Development Planning
Author: Davydd J. GreenwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Community-Level Research, Local-Regional-Governmental Interactions and Developmental Planning
Author: Davydd J. GreenwoodPublisher:
ISBN: 9780867310221
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Agricultural Decision Making
Author: Peggy F. BarlettPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483268411
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Agricultural Decision Making: Anthropological Contributions to Rural Development presents the impact of farmers' choices in agricultural production. This book discusses how individual decisions determine household profits and well-being, capital requirements, land use, and the adoption of technology. Organized into three parts encompassing 14 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the theoretical and methodological questions concerning the use of formal models in evaluating the alternatives open to farmers. This text then explores the patterns of agricultural choices within one rural community. Other chapters consider the implications of decision-making research for agricultural development policy and explore the decision-making context of aid programs. This book discusses as well the impacts of nonagricultural alternatives on agricultural decisions. The final chapter deals with various policy and development programs for agricultural development. This book is a valuable resource for economic anthropologists, historians, economists, agricultural economists, rural sociologists, psychologists, farmers, and research workers.
The Ties that Bound
Author: Barbara A. HanawaltPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195045642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth- and fifteenth-century peasants coped with such problems as providing for the newborn and the aged, controlling premarital sex, and alleviating the harshness of their material environment in many ways correspond with our twentieth-century solutions. Using a remarkable array of sources, including over 3,000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths, Hanawalt emphasizes the continuity of the nuclear family from the middle ages into the modern period by exploring the reasons that families served as the basic unit of society and the economy. Providing such fascinating details as a citation of an incantation against rats, evidence of the hierarchy of bread consumption, and descriptions of the games people played, her study illustrates the flexibility of the family and its capacity to adapt to radical changes in society. She notes that even the terrible population reduction that resulted from the Black Death did not substantially alter the basic nature of the family.
Rice, Rupees, and Ritual
Author: D. George ShermanPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804766630
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In this ethnographic study of the small mountain village of Huta Ginjang in the Samosir area of northern Sumatra, the author pursues three main themes: the role of rice in the Batak economy of feasting, and the cultural ecology of dry- and flooded-field rice-growing. Two important questions emerge: How did the social and economic changes resulting from Dutch colonization - particularly the adoption of money as a medium of exchange - affect Samosir Batak culture/ Have the values that largely shape the local economy been fundamentally altered by the effects of colonization and subsequent Japanese and Indonesian administrations? After introductory chapters present the environmental and historical background of the Samosir region, the author describes the socio-cultural base on which its agricultural economy rests: indigenous political and religious institutions, concepts of patrilineal descent and marriage alliance, and, most importantly, the ideology of the feasting system. He then examines in detail and in comparative perspective the agricultural practices of Huta Ginjang, and also deals more generally with the economic relations and institutions of the villagers, notably marketing, credit, and cooperative endeavours. Since the key production units are nuclear families, the author analyzes the development of households and the organization of labor in cultivating crops. He then turns to the distribution of livestock and land by both ritual and nonritual means. The book is illustrated with photographs, line drawings, and maps.
FAO Research and Technology Paper
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
An Integrative Paradigm for Analysis and Understanding of Irrigation Systems, with Applications
Author: Poh-Kok NgPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arid regions agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
A.E. Res
Author: Knowledge-Based Development for Cities and Societies: Integrated Multi-Level Approaches
Author: Metaxiotis, KostasPublisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1615207228
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
"This book presents a better knowledge and understanding of applying knowledge-based development policies, contributing to the theorizing of knowledge-based development and creation of knowledge societies"--Provided by publisher.